We are excited to relaunch Albert Dadas’ Memory Game by Johan Furåker!

Furåker has for several years been reconstructing Albert Dadas’ memory. Dadas suffered from Pathological Tourism, madness combined with runaway impulses and memory loss. One day in 1886 Dadas did not turn up for work. He disappeared without saying goodbye to any of his friends or colleagues, without even informing his family.

In this memory game, you will travel in Dadas’ footsteps and experience his forgotten journeys.

The memory game is our 2nd edition and it comes in 12 copies. The game is designed and published by Woodpecker Projects.

Come visit our booth at Victoriateatern on April 21 and 22 at MABB – Malmö Artist’s Book Biennial!

Malmö Artist’s Book Biennial is a Swedish and International exhibi­tion and selling platform for art works that are inspired by the structural and conceptual properties of the book form. National and inter­national artists, publishers, booksellers and organizations will be there and so will we!

And meet us in C–salen at Malmö Konsthall for the “After Work Shop” on Sunday April 22 1 – 2.45

Welcome to the release of our new book at IAC in Malmö on Malmö gallery night Sep 30, 2017 18-24!

At 21 on the night of the opening, there will be a reading by artist and writer Henning Lundkvist from a text produced for the book.

This book by Kevin Malcolm is co-published by Varv Varv and Woodpecker Projects and presents works from an ongoing artistic research project initiated in 2014. Its starting point is the Musée Guimet in Paris and the collection of Asian art amassed by industrialist and traveller Émile Étienne Guimet whose fortune was made in the production of a synthetic ultramarine pigment essential as a whitening agent. This project asks questions of European identity and the role of the artist as collector and exhibitor of images and objects.

Here is the artist Kevin Malcolm looking over the process at Narayana Press.

Welcome to the solo exhibition at IAC in Malmö by Kevin Malcolm presents works from an ongoing artistic research project initiated in 2014. Its starting point is the Musée Guimet in Paris and the collection of Asian art amassed by industrialist and traveller Émile Étienne Guimet whose fortune was made in the production of a synthetic ultramarine pigment essential as a whitening agent. This project asks questions of European identity and the role of the artist as collector and exhibitor of images and objects.

A new publication, co-published by Varv Varv and Woodpecker Projects, was launched at the opening. Entitled Outremer, the book explores Malcolm’s personal archive relating to the project alongside specially commissioned texts by Henning Lundkvist and Simen Joachim Helsvig. There will be a reading by Lundkvist at the opening of the exhibition.Driven by an interest in how images, texts and objects communicate, Malcolm is concerned with unearthing subliminal layers of meaning. Through strategies of alteration, combination and repositioning, the work aims to highlight residual histories and power dynamics, enabling reflection on knowledge production and representation. His practice displays a tendency to engage with and rework found material and his work often features a fragmentation or decay of language and information, suggesting alternative interpretations and narratives. Born and educated in Glasgow, Malcolm is currently based in Copenhagen.

The opening was on Malmö gallery night Sep 30, 2017 18-24. At 21 on the night of the opening, there will be a reading by artist and writer Henning Lundkvist from a text produced for our book on Malcolm’s work.

Welcome to the opening on Sep 23 at Ystad Konstmuseum 12-16 with a presentation at 14. In this show we, the curators of Woodpecker Projects are, through a selection of artworks, testing ideas of power relations and hierarchical positions using perspectives on body and language found in the exhibited artworks. The show exists alongside a fictive script by Stine Marie Jacobsen created in reference to the movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, where a main character pretends to be mentally ill and lets himself be admitted to a mental hospital. Upon arriving, the character finds the ward run by a strict nurse, who instead of helping the patients in their recovery actually suppresses their mental health.

Similarly, in the book, the artworks are in group therapy sessions led by Woodpecker Projects. We follow their discussions and self-explanations in a “behind the scene” movie set, in an art museum-cum-mental institution (Ystad Konstmuseum). The artworks think they have been summoned to discuss the exhibitions format, but what the artworks don’t know is that they have been placed in psychological care and are now being investigated by the strict curators for their “sensitivities” and eccentricities. By providing the artworks with a voice, the catalogue text uncovers the ‘inner’ principles in play in each artwork.

In collaboration with Podium Oslo, Woodpecker Projects proudly presents a solo show by Kevin Malcolm opening on May 19th! The show’s starting point is at the Musée Guimet in Paris and it’s collection of Asian art amassed by industrialist and traveller Emile Guimet. His fortune was made in the production of a synthetic ultramarine pigment essential as a whitening agent. In these works the role of the artist as collector and exhibitor of images and objects in a digital era is questioned and parallels are made with 19th Century traditions of collecting.

Dear Woodpecker follower! 2017 has begun with several cool projects in the pipeline! Apart from two pretty captivating book projects in the spring we are responsible for four shows throughout the year!

With Kevin Malcolm we are unpacking his Outremer project both in Oslo at Podium and at IAC during Malmö gallery night! Malcolm’s project takes as its starting point a folio of photogravures of Cambodian art objects from the Musée Guimet in Paris. This museum houses the collection of Asian art amassed by the 19th Century industrialist and traveller Emile Guimet whose fortune was made in the production of a synthetic ultramarine pigment.

Another of Woodpecker’s historical dives this year is with Johan Furåker, who is releasing with us a book on the subject of Luisa Casati; an eccentric Italian socialite who sought to make her life a work of art – and succeeded. Casati was strangely omnipresent in the cultural and social landscape of the early 20th century. She lived everywhere and nowhere simultaneously and now she is moving in to pages in a Woodpecker book.

Finally, Ystad Konstmuseum asked us to dive into the minefield of dealing with ideas of POWER through art works and curating.This, we are exploring these days. And while we are getting our hands dirty you are invited to stay tuned.

At Thomas Millroth’s show Artists’ Books at Lunds Konsthall Woodpecker Projects is participating in several ways!

Linnéa Eriksson, who last year released with us her book “Smetar av sig – Att läsa med Susan Howe” are reading at the opening where we are also releasing a new book entitled Viewing Devices by Patrik Aarnivaara!

This new book introduces the reader to a series of sculptures by Aarnivaara that investigates the relationship between body and camera. His sculptures are influenced by various support structures for image production like tripods, rigs, and studio equipment that reflects, filters, or mirrors light and images of a place. The book is designed by VARV VARV and co-published by Woodpecker Projects and VARV VARV

Welcome to the release of another in-house-production by Woodpecker Projects’ Ditte Ejlerskov.

In the booth of Printer’s Proof at CODE Art Fair in Copenhagen My Bajan Letters will be celebrated with a glass of bubbles together with a presentation of its special edition.

The publication is divided into three books. Two books contain emails with a scammer from Barbados, one book contains stills from a film color-graded by Simon Möller! And the book has an afterword by Tina Sauerländer!

On Malmö Gallery Night at IAC Woodpecker Projects proudly presents AND AGAIN SHIFTS / OCH IGEN SKIFTEN by Imri Sandström. The show is part of Sandström’s research project Howe Across Reading – Performing the Past – an artistic research project, within the field of literary composition.

Welcome to Blind Spots 2 – a symposium on art and migration organized by Woodpecker Projects and artist Maj Hasager in collaboration with Malmö Konstmuseum.

In light of the current situation where an increasingly heated political climate is shaping the rhetoric and discussion concerning migrants and refugees – we wish to investigate the agency of art and artists working with these matters or within related fields.

Welcome to the Swedish premiere of the film We will meet in the blind spot by Maj Hasager (DK), and launch of her publication Making Visible published by Woodpecker Projects. Release of Bifurcating futures, performance by dancer Maria Concetta Borgese (IT) and vinyl record release of Bifurcating Soundscape by composer Ask Kæreby (DK).

Situated between documentary and fiction, the book relays stories of the Esposizione Universale di Roma (EUR) district in Rome. The EUR was built during the fascist rule of Mussolini to represent a »Third Rome« but wasn’t completed until the 1960’s, when it was eventually finished under very different purposes of urban planning.

Through encounters with the local Filipino community centered around a church in EUR, personal accounts and stories are compiled, that are often lacking within the Italian and European debate on migration.

Here we are re-actualizing Woodpecker Letters #1 – in which Furåker is featured with risographic prints and a letter from Gabriele D’Annunzio to Luisa Casati (the latter is the protagonist of the show Life of Leisure).

Welcome to the release of THE MINAJ BOOK by one of Woodpeckers Projects’ own folks, Ditte Ejlerskov, on Berlin’s Gallery Weekend opening night May 1st at Sommer & Kohl.

On the same evening Ejlerskov is opening THE MINAJ SHOW in the gallery, in which she claims to be paying back her outstanding debt to the Trinidadian rapper Nicki Minaj.

In order to convey a deeper understanding of Minaj’s unconventional feminist methods, THE MINAJ BOOK unpacks the contemporary mainstream through a body of work which appropriates the rapper’s aesthetics and lyrics.

Floriography is based on a cryptological communication through the use or arrangement of flowers.

Interest in the language of flowers soared in Victorian England during the 19th century. Gifts of blooms, plants, and specific floral arrangements were used to send a coded message to the recipient, allowing the sender to express feelings which could not be spoken aloud in Victorian society.

The work portrays a dictionary from this time in which Henricson has based the selection of plants from the assortment of plants that his father cultivates in his garden center.

The Rihanna Rapports is an archive in an edition of one copy by Ditte Ejlerskov. It consists of captions of American pop-star Rihanna’s modes of expression through fashion. The word “rapport” refers to the word “report” – but it has a different content. This archive as a true fan art projects, and the word “rapport” occurs here because it is used when two or more people feel that they are in sync or on the same wavelength because they feel similar or relate well to each other. Besides, the word literally means “to carry something back” – what one person sends out the other sends back.

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The Rihanna Rapports are placed in 30 red boxes on red plints. They consist of A5 sketchbooks, colour tests, pallette books and photos from the studio, texts and screen drops with information documenting not only the studio work but also each outfit and situation around Rihanna on different days of her paparazzi-documented and commercialized life.

Throughout the year we have directed our focus on the parallels between historical right-wing movements such as the one Gabriele D’Annunzio (1863-1938) represents – the protagonist of Johan Furåker’s exhibition – and similar contemporary tendencies in the Scandinavian societies.

With Furåker’s exhibition A Poet in Need of an Empire at Ping Pong Gallery, Malmö, as a starting point, we invited Maj Hasager, Oscar K, Henrik Arnstad and the exhibiting artist Johan Furåker to write a letter each to someone from someone relating to the overall thematics. Also, we are publishing two essays by Lisbeth Bonde and Göran Hägg, respectively, who are presenting Gabriele D’Annunzio in closer detail.

The letters, which are very different in character and form, will be read aloud in the gallery on 16 March 2014, 17-19 pm, while the fanzine Woodpecker Letters #1 will be printed in our temporary Risograph print shop run by Beast Studio.

Welcome to the opening of One for Sorrow where we are releasing Jens Henricson’s book Efterklang/Reverberation.

Efterklang/Reverberation is a reconstruction of Henricson’s childhood microcosm in which references to the child, its games and its way of looking at the world unfold. Where the past solely exists as fragments, insinuations, grand tales and incomplete testimonies. These data, facts, despite being interpreted, contribute to the story.

On Malmö Gallerinatt Saturday 28/9 from 6 pm to midnight we release the video publication Stella and Florence’s Syndrome created by Søren Aagaard, Steffen Jørgensen, Anna Margrethe Pedersen, Merete Vyff Slyngborg og Ditte Boen Soria. The video has been recorded at IAC during the exhibition period of Some Objects Are More Equal Than Others, and so it took shape as an intimate, guided tour. While at the same time being a romantic movie the project also challenge the format of the exhibition catalogue and of the publication all together.

Location: Inter Art Center, Bergsgatan 29, Malmö
– Use code 2828 for door and elevator during the release- and finissages.

The poet is a faker
Who’s so good at his act
He even fakes the pain
Of pain he feels in fact

(Fernando Pessoa: Autopsychography)

This exhibition about globalization shows five artists who are all strangers, not just to the art scene in Malmö, but in fact also to themselves.

On Malmö Gallerinatten, September 28th, the video publication Stella and Florence’s Syndrome will be launched. Stella and Florence’s Syndrome is created by the artists running the exhibition place YEARS and it’s been shot on site during the exhibition.

Dear friends of Woodpecker Projects. Today we are happy to launch our new website created by Tobias Eklund and our new visual identity designed by Joakim Olsson. The new front visualize the relationships between Woodpecker Projects’ aim to find, explore, see and read. We believe it reflects our commitment to produce, promote, document, and theorize new works exploring the intersection of word, image, and media.

Woodpecker Projects is a merge between the two micro publishing houses Woodpecker and Papi. Run by Jens Henricson and Jerker Knape, Papi has since 2007 produced Papi magazine, art exhibitions and various events – and since the focus went hand in hand with the aims of Woodpecker, founded in 2008 by Ditte Ejlerskov, a joined program was a natural development.

At the moment we are planning our next edition and exhibition at IAC in Malmö, SE.